Gotta Get Back to Melbourne

Gotta get back to Melbourne I gotta get back to school I gotta get back to Melbourne Where everybody thinks I’m cool Back to witches and wizards, and magical beasts To heatstroke and storms and to magical feasts

Yes, it’s true. I’m joining the Executive MBA cohort at Swinburne University’s Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship in March. That means up to two years in Australia, Melbourne to be precise. I’m getting a lot of “it’s about time you came home”. Sorry, I still don’t have home , but I am looking forward to seeing my favorite people in Australia, and eating laksa, and drinking more consistently delicious coffee. I’m kind of also looking forward to thunderstorms, but not the hot, hot sun, and spiders.

This plan has been a possibility for a month or so now, so I’ve been mentally saying goodbye to places. I don’t know where I’ll be in two years time. I may return to Seattle, or I may go elsewhere. It’ll be good to have two years of stability, even though it will be chaotic with school full-time, close to full-time work, Mass Consternation, and Tap Dancing Spiders, and trying to fit in some fun.

In preparation, there are things I need to know. It’s about five years since I was last in Australia, and it will be nine years since I moved away. Melbourne has changed. I have changed. So, there are things I need to find out before arriving.